Up until this point, we’ve essentially been covering the requirements and prerequisite knowledge necessary to increase your chances of building a successful online business.
Today marks a turning point.
It’s time to begin focusing on your personal situation, and to turn our attention to your future business…
(Watch this video…)
Main points:
Without vision, your business probably won’t succeed.
I describe vision as being able to “see” a clear picture of your fulfilled goals in your mind.
It’s like the box cover of a difficult puzzle…
You must begin with the end in mind.
Almost every success in my life has come AFTER having a vision for it. (For example, when I won the state championship, and every time I launch a product)
The successful business owners that I’ve known ALL have vision.
It’s kind of like looking at the world from 30,000 feet. You see the big picture, and not the problems.
If you lose sight of your vision, you lose hope. And if you lose hope, it’s game over.
As we progress in the lessons, we’ll keep moving forward step by step, but if you don’t start by getting a vision, further efforts could be somewhat futile.
If you set your target too low, you may hit it, but there is almost no chance that you will exceed it. On the other hand, if you set your target too high, you may fail, but you will be further along than the “low” target. Therefore it’s better to set your vision higher.
One of the biggest things I see holding people back is a “victim mentality”.
“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture. Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures. So always picture ‘success’ no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.” – Norman Vincent Peale
Many of us have taken on a “just get by” mentality.
The size of your vision will dictate the size of the result.
YOU are valuable. Don’t sell yourself short.
Here’s my “disclaimer” that I forgot to include in the video…. “The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” (Prov. 16:9)
Action steps:
I want you to take a moment to tell me your vision for your business. The vision can involve other areas of your life too, but since we’re working on building your business, it should be focused on your business.
It’s important to write your vision down, so go ahead and post it in the comments below. This is YOUR vision, and there is NO wrong answer.
Focus on the big picture. Don’t worry about the details of how you will get there. We’ll worry about that stuff when we learn about goal setting and business plans, and I’ll be talking about those things in the next lesson.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below.
Have a great day!
I am a 76 year old retired businessman. I have a “livable” income, but was heavily impacted by the recession of 2007 – 2008. I need to recover what I lost in order to live out my retirement years the way I used to. That is going to take developing additional income of at least $5,000 a month. That’s target number one. If I achieve that in a reasonable time frame, I will set a new goal of twice that much to speed up the process of recovering all of my losses.
Eric, my vision is to have a successful online business. I currently sell gift baskets online, but have not sold many. I also do some small sewing projects, which I want to use as an encouragement to others. I would like to be able to give away every tenth project to those in need. I would also like to sell enough to contribute largely to our income so that we do not have such a hard time paying bills (and can do more leisure activities)! Thanks for these lessons!
You can get all the lessons here on my site
to myself tom my vision is to successfuly share with my customers, young and old how to handle their income, this is the online business i intend to run information. It is very easy to learn.. I will help all who ask for this information… I see myself as a teacher with many students having the life with out the stress of finicial weight.. I also see myself relaxing by the beach in northern michigan,,doing this business carefree,,enjoying old age to my fullest with my wife and my grandchildren…and family….the price for this is priceless.. the cost to do this is a quarter million dollars a year after taxes.. thats my goal for my internet business ERIC!!!!!!
MY VISION
To have a very successful online business by writing informational E-books or finding other venues to explore as I learn.I have a wealth of information to pass on to others as I am 76 and would love showing other elderly people how to make extra money and really have a lot of fun. I am enjoying your lessons. Thank you. Pat Little
to have a bussiness selling real to nature information, like our bodies, my all nature oils I want to help people is my goal. I like to work where ever I am at and travel. money is to live comfortly and drive a good car to travel in.My name bramble means a bush, how nature can you get
I would like a sucessfull online business that allows me more time with my family who i would also encourage to do the same the business would be so good i could help charities and not really wonder how much i could spare to each of them after creating this the sense of acchievment would be amazing a global busineess worth billions
My vision is to be an expert online network marketer who offers tools and systems that help others succeed. I want to develop friendships and network with other successful online marketers. My business goals are bring in over $500,000 per year. This will allow me to purchase real estate around the world, build my own tennis club/coaching facility for youth and travel with my family whenever I want. I will also give back to charities and help out my family.
Hi Eric, my vision for the future is to start a fresh, with an interesting internet business to generate 1 million for the first year, from my living room.
I would help the the kids with unfortunate life threating diseases and give back to society and live a comfortable life by getting my dream come through house, travel the world and spend more time with my family. Thank you for the inspiration to be patient.
My business vision is to be able to eventually build selling websites from scratch that would have “eye appeal” and “saleability” from the moment they are first viewed. I enjoy being creative.
I also see my business earning me an income so HUGE that I can “teach others to fish” after I get my own house in order and am financially independent.
Finally, I see myself traveling wherever I desire whenever I desire.
My vision is to have a successful online business centered around my passion for helping people to find sobriety from alcohol, drugs & other mind altering conditions. I will work from home, less than 40 hours per week and R Biz will bring in an amount of cash that will not only support me and my family in a way that will let us vacation and travel, but will give me large amounts of money to donate to some of my favorite organizations. Included in these will be the Bridge (a recovery house for women), Valley Hope Treatment Center, and Start Over Rover (a private rescue and shelter for animals in need). I have been given so much in sobriety that I can never fully repay God and the people that helped me.
This was a bit tougher in the thinking bigger part than I thought it would be but here goes:
My vision is to have an online business that is focused on personal development and learning about one’s spirituality. These things are enduring passions of mine and I love to share them. As my business makes more than $1M a year, I am able to work just a few hours a day and spend the rest of my time visiting my daughter in college and serving at my church. I am able to fund many mission trips and travel when I want, taking my pets with me.
My vision is to be successful internet marketer. I want to earn enough in my internet business to get out of debt. I have a background in computers and want to share that information with others. I want to be able to take a vacation when I want to and not have to be away from family on holidays.
My vision is to become an online marketer! I will sell information products in various niches as well as selling physical products I find interesting and/or profitable. I will leverage the power of the internet to amass a large sales team and I will automate most of my business. I will receive payments all hours of the day and night. I will use the money I make with me business to create wealth for my family. My children will go to college and have opportunities and a business that will carry on long after I am gone. Our business will give back to the community and we will do our best to educate, feed, cloth and care for people that can not care for themselves. Our mission is simple. Provide information or goods in a way that it can best serve the customer. Fast, Honest, and Reliable. We will provide the answers to the needs of our customer! My debt will be clear in 2012!
My vision is to quit my current job and make my business succeed so I can help my children have a better life than myself.Make a least 1 million dollars in my first year so I can help people in need.I will volunteer my time and money to shelters for people and animals.I want to have 2 or possibly 3 homes in different parts of the US.
“My vision is to have a successful online business centered around my passion(s) which (are/is) entertainment, information and product sales. I will work from my home and spend more time with my family and friends. I will work less than 30 hours weekly and my business will bring in $10 million per year. I will be in a position to give back to the communities that I inhabit as well as lend a helping hand to those who are less fortunate and in need of help. I will go on several vacations per year and be in a position to host events, gatherings and parties for many of my family members and friends to enjoy.
My vision is to retire from the military and stay at home to spend time with my family and not worry about how to pay bills, wondering if I have secured place to live, or wonder where the next meal is coming from. Basically not living paycheck to paycheck wondering if I have enough left over to provide for my family.
My vision is to be able to live life to the fullest with my family, to provide without worrying if there will be enough money. I want to be with my family all day ever day and enjoy every moment. I want to help others who are less fortunate and help them do the same for their families. I will hand in my resignation letter this year because my business will flourish so I can accomplish this!!
When I was first thinking about starting a business, I was thinking small. I wanted a business that only covered my husband’s salary and multiplied my disability check/month by 4. That should have covered all of our bills and left some over for one vacation a year ( we have been week – to – week pay checks for so long that we have not been on a vacation since our honeymoon, 33 years ago).
Since then my vision has changed. I want to make $250,000/month. My business is Affiliate Marketing but I have not made any money as of yet because I have problems driving traffic. I would like to learn all free traffic methods. I need to learn the free traffic methods because I have no funds left after trying to get my business off the ground and running into some money hungry Gurus. I want to build a large responsive list for my Affiliate Marketing Business. I want to teach anyone that wants to learn Affiliate Marketing how I got to the top of the ladder and how I stayed there for my entire successful business career. I will make a step – by – step business blueprint that anyone can follow, for my students to learn one method of how it is done.
Along with my regular business, I want to give back to a certain segment of our population, anyone with Breast Cancer. In the beginning, I would deal mostly with Breast Cancer but I want to eventually help anyone with cancer understand what it is like going through the various different treatments for cancer. I would let my blog take on a life of its own – giving others the chance to tell their stories of their various different forms of cancer and how they where treated. Since I have had experience in this area, it would be a perfect charity giveback for me to pursue as well as helping the RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) Foundation in anyway that I can.
Hi Eric!
Thank you for your lessons! They are very helpful and easy to follow. 😀
My vision is to be a successful online marketer and pay it forward by helping others do the same. I want to live more than comfortably but most importantly, I want to be able to help my family out financially and take them on various vacations per year! I also want to help out local organizations and help those in need.
My first teacher of internet marketing has been Carol. Since she started her lesson she told us to write “our goals.” I did! And made of Poster of it! I have to keep some of my ambitions private for now, until I prove myself, because i am old. But I am healthy and young are heart. Thank you Lord!
Are goals and visions the same thing? Well, let me talk about some of my ambitions,dreams and goals. I want to be able to make an steady income, or streams of income, to cover my monthly bills. And at the same time give to
The Church! 10% of it…titheing as we’re told. And if possible give more!
Then I’ll invest in the commodities markets with GBE guidace and help of Jim the trader. And… when more “pennies like manna keeps falling from the heavens”… I’ll retire for good, but not before pass along all this knowlege to my daughters and sons. Then i’ll take a big steamer and travel… going from port to port. Ah! And i’ll keep busy cleaning muy writings, in order to publish some of them as I go along. That will take me few years… if Christ do not come before. And if he does. Glory! Good bye earthy ambitions and dreams! Anyhow a New Kingdom on Earth is comming. Oh Glory my Lord! Who wants to be at least 100 old? Me!
My vision for My Business is to sort out all of the information I have absorbed in the last six months or so. All of these people have bombarded me with products. I now know I must “Create” a product, as they have done and sold/or not, to me.
1)I am writing an E book in an obscure area, but one I am passionate about, and I know I can sell. I am still in research as I write. 2)I have been given a set of products with their accompanying squeeze pages, etc. I have to figure out how to put it all together. Lack of Technical know how gets in the way.
3)I have other products demanding technical how to, to get at it. Marketers, it seems, drop these products in your lap, and say “do it.” Do what? How?
I know I have to do these things while I manage several websites,(built for me)doing back linking, posts, comments, guest blogging.
I see all of these things making me a fabulous income, but I must learn about lists, opt-ins, auto responders, all of the nitty gritty stuff you need to know to get to that income.
I see the end. It is knowing how to get through all of this ‘stuff’ for the prize, that troubles me.
Thanks Eric for your great training.You have been an answer to my prayers and may god bless you and yours.I will be 62 in a few month’s and until a year ago had never used a computer. My vision since getting one has been to have an online business, which I do, but have had little success only disjointed information.Thank you for helping put it together.I WILL fulfill this vision to retire without depending on Government help and I Will do it this year.I see myself giving freely to my church,family,missions,and charities and helping others to also be free,by building their business.
My Vision is to replace my wife And my income in the next year. And be able to meet new people in this bis. And to help people better thier own life. And leave a legacey for my family.
My vision is to earn $10,000.00 a month in 3 month’s time, to buy a home for my daughter and I by the end of the summer and to go on a family summer vacation. To start a savings plan for my daughter in order for her to have a better future. I want to fulfill a long held dream of making a difference in the country of my birth by financing the construction of a children’s ward in 3-5 years time.
Thanks Eric it nice to belive in someone you don’t even know. MY vision is to replace my wifes and my income in the next year. And meet and help new people to make there life better. And leave legacey for my family.And be able to some gods work like you and your family. Thanks so much.
Hi Eric,
By the grace of God in our Lord Jesus Christ
and as a baby-boomer…my vision is:
to retire in 36 months from my career…
with a thriving Million(s) of dollars internet
marketing business…the financial freedom of
being debt free… the cash purchase of my dream
vision of a Viking 82’…at the helm & traveling up and down the eastern seashore with my wife and family…to leave a legacy to my children’s, children and to give back what was so freely given to me in my life…A Grand Day?!
http://tinyurl.com/Icanseemyvision
Emanuel ‘Manny’ Gramatikos
Ormond Beach, Florida
My vision is to build wealth-learning centers that promote minibusinesses to produce things of value.
Hi Eric,
I enjoyed listening and watching the lessons. I have spend about 4k trying to build a business online last year but I have many books video and so much in formations that other people who promised I will be success but all of a sudden went off in thin air. Any way I believe you are an ethical person.
My vision Is to be able to build an online business successfully around my passion for education fishing and technology. I want to generate $1,000,000. a year to help pay our small church I am pastoring, help our community
in education, help the after math tsunami victims in the Pacific, buy a home for my family, finish my kids education and do their online businesses. I plan to finish my research and publish the book I am writing on the History and my wife’s videos on short stories for Sunday School Kids.
God Bless You and your Family.
Timoteo
My goal is to use my skills as a Reiki (energy healing)Master and crafter to help people to lessen their anger, depression, and confusion about what is happening in this world, and in their lives. I would also like to become successful and wealthy so my bills would be paid and I can live a comfortable life. Although I will have to keep learning, tweaking and honing my skills along the way, my biggest problem right now is getting a clear vision of what I want, and knowing how to get started. My greatest fear is that I will fail on-line because of all the competition, and that it will prevent me from staying on the path with the vision I want to create. I don’t want to live in fear. I want to create and heal.
My vision after being unemployed for the past year and a half is to have a successful online business to make me financially independent within the next year. I would like to be totally debt free within the next year and I’m not talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’m willing to spend the necessary time this will take with what you are teaching me in these tips. This in turn should allow me the time I need for my real passion of building furniture and crafts and being able to support myself through diversification of the 2 jobs I would have.
Hi, Am now living with my daughter’s family. Am
85 yrs young. I see myself financially free, to choose where I can go, when I want to go, (have now to depend on others, because I can’t afford an automobile) and to donate to favorite causes. I now dream of particle houses, vehicles and personal involvents.
George
My vision is to become a successful online marketer which in turn will allow me to retire from my present job after 40 years. I will have the time and money to spend on the people I love most – my wife & grandson and not have to worry about money or the lack of it.
My vision is to have a healthy, active, and enjoyable life, I want a good, solid, recurring income from an internet marketing business to where stress over money is no longer an issue. I want to be financially independent and debt free so I can retire with ease. I want a comfortable home living environment. I also want to help my family members and close friends achieve their own income security by passing on what I learn from being a successful internet marketer.
I want the time to enjoy my hobbies and related passions. They should also generate a subsidiary income. I also want the freedom to travel First Class anywhere in the world whenever I want. All this will start to be attained in 2012.
My vision is to become a life coach and speaker in order to encourage and assist people with pursuing and realizing their dreams even when they are facing many obstacles.
The ability to wake up in the morning and see money in the bank that was made while I sleep.
The goal of making $300,000 a year giving me enough to pay my bills and plenty to share with others.
My vision is: know well the basics of Internet Marketing. Choose the most suitable art (form) of business for me where I can use all my skills. Help people have a better life (throw physics article and information). Work to gather with other people to change knowledge and experiences. Earn money.
a quote that was life changing for me was from Harry Palmer: Don’t let what you are being get in the way of what you might become. that is so true and as there is nothing that lasts forever (whether it’s sadness, happiness, anger whatever) eventually it will pass. the only way I believe, not to succeed would be not to have a vision. the vision itself is so inspiring to me that just reading it gives me hope. so thank you Eric – this would be the best lesson so far and validates my decision to not give up on my internet marketing business as I knew I would find the “right” teacher for me. so thank you for being part of my vision 🙂
My vision is to produce $250,000/year in online profits (not revenues) enabling me to not only quit my day job, but to focus 100% of my energy on finding ways to use my revenues to CONTINUE to grow even more revenues by purchasing other companies. As Robert Kyosaki would say, to get out of the Rat Race.
My vision is to become financially free, with this said I could others in need. I would like to find a business that I a compassied about. Getting up in the morning and working on it would be a blast.A business that I stick with for a long time.
Hi guys!
I have a very clear vision and I focus on it every day!!
I want to work at home so that I can spend more time with my son and my horses!!
I actually love to work but being able to do it when I choose to would mean a lot of freedom!!
I would love to have a larger house and be able to travel around the world!
First of all I´m going to make sure that I will be debt free! That will bring peace in my heart and soul!
I would also choose to help people around the world if I had that possibility!
It sure would give my life a fantastic purpose and I am certain that I´m going to make it!
I´m aiming to make at least $15000 a month or approx. $500 per day very soon and then I just might get more than that.
Who knows…
Love and light,
Linda
First, I would like to say thank you Eric for all of the great information and motivation that you have here and for no fee! I am a newbie to this and I am appreciative of this work you have put into this for us all.
Now on to my vision for my online business. I would like to be able to dictate my life and not have a job, government entity, or people dictate it for me. I want to play by my rules with no restraints. What I think will help me to do this is having this online business that generates not only riches but wealth to pass on for generations to come. This opportunity would help me to learn things I have always wanted to learn, go places I have always wanted to go and do things I have always wanted to do. Overall, I have always had a vision of a Help Center for the community I live in, to help those having issues with housing, food, clothing, employment, etc. and give a helping hand leaving them with resources, pride and dignity and not the typical shelter. I know how it looks, I know how it operates, I know what type of staff I need and so much more but the money is an issue. I really want to get it up and started so by pursuing this, I can help not only myself and my family but the people in my community.
Thanks again for everything…
My vision is to have an internet business that can make me financially independent. My business would be centered around my passion for gardening and the outdoors. I have worked for thirty years in the rat race helping build other peoples dreams and would like to work now on my dream or vision. I would like to finally learn how to succeed in an internet business and pass this information on to help others realize their dreams also.
My vision is to make enough money to gain financial freedom. This new found independence will allow me to do many more things with my wife and kids. This will provide a safty net for the children and there endeavors. This will also remove the “do we have enough money in the bank to cover the morgate syndrome”. I feel that 50,000. a month or 600,000 a year will do just fine. i know this goal may not be lofty as some but, when i meet these goal, it will be a matter of time before I ll be able to ajust and reach my new and higher goals. With your help, the Lords blessing, and my will, I will be able to leave a wonderful legacy to my family. side note: Your ability to provide people with a way out of a otherwise bad/ struggling finicail situation is a blessing from god. you have a student in me. I will follow you around, like a puppy. Eyes wide open and tail ah wagging.
My vision is to learn this business at a faster pace so that I can have some of my websites up and running soon. I am new to this business and need to learn the basic steps of adding links/banners to my sites. I ultimately wish to develop several streams of income through internet marketing so that I can financially care for my 85 year old mom, myself, other loved ones, and others which I am lead by God to give to.
My vision is to have a successful online business that will change the way people think about how they buy, to reduce waste and cause less of a pollution/depletion effect on our planet and at the same time make enough income to offset my life choices and have enough to give to others who are truly needy and fulfill my volunteer aspirations without worrying where my next dollar will come from.
There would be about 7.5 million world wide with a similar mission.
The vision for my online business is to work alone for less than 40 hours per week (burnt out on corp America) and make enough money to pay my bills, save for retirement, and travel a little. That’s it. I’m simple.
Mr. Holmlund,
First of all, I would like to thank you for taking the time to teach this marvelous course.I have been trying for 12 years to start some kind of internet business. Thank God I found you, and with your help I will succeed no matter what. God Bless You!
Thanks,
Charles (Chuck) Springer
My vision is to have a successful online business where I am EITHER 1) teaching low-level English speakers to speak English at a proficient skill level OR 2) to help vocationally/career undecided clients to arrive at clear career goal paths and concrete action plans. Whichever vision I pursue will enable me to earn enough fimancial returns to allow me to be completely self-sufficient.